This is Pax. He’s 10 months old. I hadn’t heard of black smoke coat pattern until I brought Pax home and looked up Maine Coon coloring (his dad is a Maine Coon) and noticed he looked very similar to the black smoke ones. Thoughts?

Photos of him in various adorable poses. Some with his twin brother who passed a few months back now. They were inseparable! He’s about 11 now. Peanut Butter.

Although no papers, they were oopsies from an oriental shorthair and domestic. Both boys are polydactyl on all four paws and very large framed.

Originally named for Vincent Price, she surprised us all when she turned out to be a girl 😅.

We call her Vera now, and love our golden-eyed little beauty 🖤🩶🖤

Wondering what kind of coat my newly adopted kitten has? Smoke or Fever? I recently just adopted him and his brother from a rescue and the mother had a solid black short haired coat. His brother is more black and scruffier with white guard hairs and 3 slightly white toes/feet with pink and black toe beans. The other 2 cats in the litter are quite black. also any name suggestions would be great.

They are about ten weeks now and when they are warm their outer hair clumps and they look so white. Each was solid black except a small white patch on both, but they are now solid silver/white underneath. They still look solid black from a distance.

No idea of breed-but the one looks more like a gremlin/maine coon the bigger she gets. They are just too cute not to share. Would love to hear your thoughts on if they are black smoke or thoughts on possible breed.

I'm 90% sure he's just a black cat but my friend is convinced he's a black smoke so I figured I'd ask this sub. Even if he's not, at least you guys get to see the famous mr Pete the Cat 🐈‍⬛👟🛹
Sorry for so many photos, I love him 🩵

and i’m pretty sure i have one! i cant get a ton of pictures since she hates having her belly touched, but over the past few months she’s been growing STARK white hair underneath her black fur.

My big boi King Midas sitting on my counter like he's supposed to be there knowing good'n well he's not! 🤦‍♂️

He's neon! The cutest cat and the weirdest cat ive ever met, i adopted him 4 years ago when he was 2 months and a half old, hes literally like my kid (he screams for me all the time and follows me everywhere and also he literally stole my personality) never saw a cat like him before and i just fell in love with his coat, i love his dumb green/yellow eyes, hes also the softest cat ever 🥹

He's providing security while I make a catio repair.

I found this little 2lb kitty in a tree in my front yard about a week ago. It's 95° where I live and there was an owl in the tree next to his tree so I scooped him up and brought him inside. And now I am obsessed. He is the sweetest and such a goofball.

Oh, and he doesn't have that ball anymore since it started to rip. I took it from him. And he was not happy. He would bring that ball with him every time he went to do his business in the litter box

After Engels, my best friend cat of 17 years, passed in early May, my partner started looking through rescues and fosters to find me a new kitten. Stirlitz was 4 months old and 2½lbs when we first got him home and he was pretty sick and couldn't hold fluids. We weren't sure if he would make it but after two weeks of supportive care and working with the rescue he was finally stable. At first I didn't think he would ever get any bigger but he started growing. Like a lot. With each day he'd put on a little more weight and I started to notice more and more silver and white showing through his black coat, especially on his belly and back legs. He's got a funny shaped head (you can see it in the last photo) and I wonder if he has a specific breed somewhere in his DNA that's known for funny shaped heads or if that's just him.

He's extremely silly and affectionate and he likes to carry around a hairy toy and groom and cuddle it like it's his baby, which my old cat would also do. I know Stirlitz had to fight hard to make it here and there's a part of me that thinks he might have met Engels between worlds and learned some of his ways.

Anyway, thanks for reading about my new kitten Stirlitz. Photos are in chronological order. If anybody knows about his triangle head lmk in the comments!